Queens detectives arrested a migrant on Wednesday accused of raping a woman at knifepoint while wearing a “Ghostface” sweater depicting a knife-wielding killer.
Rody Cu Morales, 20, was apprehended after law enforcement agents tracked him through surveillance footage to where he had been hiding out at his mother’s house in Queens, sources familiar with the rape case said.
Police alleged that Morales attacked the victim, a 50-year-old woman, at about 3 a.m. on April 11 along 162nd Street and 89th Avenue in Jamaica. Threatening his victim with a knife, he forced himself on her and sexually assaulted her. She was treated at a local hospital.
The fiend was caught on surveillance cameras wearing a knife-wielding Ghostface sweater from the horror franchise Scream, perversely mirroring the attack.
Sources familiar with Morales’ past report that he hails from Guatemala and has been in the country for several years, however, is new to the Big Apple. This marks his first arrest in New York.
Detectives escorted Morales in handcuffs out of the 112th Precinct stationhouse in Forest Hills on Wednesday evening. He refused to answer reporters’ questions about the attack before being loaded into the back of a police vehicle bound for Queens Criminal Court.
Morales is charged with two counts of rape, assault, sexual abuse, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment.
